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Word: settleses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the top of the pyramid is the so-called cupola, or commission of ten. Headed by the chief of the Palermo provincial council, the cupola is the body that settles jurisdictional conflicts and attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sicilian Connection | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

Honduras maintains, in addition, grave reservations about the uninvited friends its guest has brought along. The Tennessee-size nation of 4 million has during the past year been crowded with soldiers from three foreign countries. Apart from U.S. troops, Honduras has provided a home for thousands of contras, whose hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Some Reluctant Friends | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

> D.L. Stewart, 41, settles down at the typewriter four times each week to record household observations in the best Bombeck tradition. The difference is in the voice: Stewart has a much deeper one. D.L., who was known as Denny before legally changing his name to initials, is a liberated husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And on Other Home Fronts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Woodward does not attempt to appraise Belushi or to put him into any social or moral perspective. Like Sergeant Joe Friday, Woodward goes for just the facts, and they do not take him very far or deep. Since many of the facts are known from the headlines anyway, Woodward must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Overdosing on Bad Dreams | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Although the boycott movement drew no more than a few million of the nation's 24 million registered voters, Butz Aquino contended that it had indirectly helped the opposition cause by giving the K.B.L. "a false sense of security." Still, the boycotters remained skeptical that anti-Marcos forces could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Message for Marcos | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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